The 11th Dublin Anarchist Bookfair will take place Saturday 16th of April around
Smithfield square, there will also be a major event on the Friday night. ---- More details
will be posted over the next couple of weeks, this preliminary announcement is so that you
can 'hold the date'. Be sure to join the DABF 2016 Facebook event and help with our
promotion by inviting your friends and tweeting with #DABF ---- Please email all queries
to bookfair@wsm.ie ---- Below old hands will find an appeal for help with costs and for
new people details of previous bookfairs to give you an idea of what to expect. ---- Make
a donation towards the bookfair costs ---- The Dublin Anarchist Bookfair is costing about
4,000 euro to put on this year. The costs include flights for speakers, hiring the venues
& tables and printing programs & posters. All of the organisers are unpaid volunteers
contributing hundreds of hours of labour between them. Their work and your donations mean
that there is no entry charge for any of the events except the Afters Party.

What people think of the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair by Workers Solidarity on Mixcloud

Details of last years DABF 2015 to give you an idea of what to expect, links to older
bookfair pages at the bottom of this page

Our Facebook event for DABF 2015

The 10th DABF took place on 25th April in the new locations of the Generator the
Cobblestone and Block T around Smithfield square. Saturday saw us host a day of talks and
workshops emerging out of a range of struggles and new movements with book and
organisation stalls in the Generator.

After the bookfair on Saturday the always amazing Afters Party was at the Voodoo Lounge

Large high res JPG of the
2015 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair
poster to print out & display

Meeting Timetable

10.30 to 12.00
Generator - Winning Environmental struggles in Ireland
How can we build an active and confident movement to defend the natural environment? Alan
MacSimoin and Polly Wolf will discuss past and present environmental struggles in Ireland
in order to see what the challenges and possibilities are. Watch video

Block T - Voting for Marriage Equality while being critical of Marriage
We find ourselves facing a imminent referendum on marriage equality, which the hardline
religious right are opposing as part of their program of maintaining multiple oppressions.
A no vote in that context would be disastrous, serving only to entrench homophobia.
Therefore we are campaigning for a Yes to Marriage Equality vote but beyond the need to
ensure the referendum is not defeated what else needs to be said?
Listen to the Audio
Watch the Video

Cobblestone - Community Debt and Development Workshop
The aim of the participatory The Irish Debt Crisis - What Happened? workshop is to raise
awareness on events that took place in Ireland from 2008 until now, relating to the
banking crisis. Much of the emphasis is on the Anglo-Irish Bank story and it is framed
within an understanding of social justice – we think what happened was unjust and we want
to reverse it.

12.15 to 13.45
Generator - The fight against water charges - where next
In this panel, Rachael O’Sullivan and Gregor Kerr will discuss the challenges facing the
popular, community-based movement against Irish Water, and what we should do next.
Watch the video

Block T - Revolution in Rojava - from lessons to solidarity
This panel will discuss the popular struggles and direct democratic experiments ongoing in
the autonomous region of Rojava, the three largely Kurdish province of northern Syria.
There are reports that popular assemblies, women’s and youth councils as well as popular
militias have been formed, while regime property has been turned over to worker-managed
co-operatives. What exactly is happening in Rojava, what can we learn and what can we do?
Listen to the audio
Watch the video

14.00-15.15
Generator - Defending the Amazon, Defending Life
Andrés Sacanambuy will discuss the extractive economy in Putumayo, the ramifications of
recent Free Trade agreements and the ongoing defence of the Amazon rainforest as a vital
pillar for the whole planet and as a source of hope and life for future generations.
Andrés Sacanambuy is a representative of the Regional Front of Social Organisations of
Putumayo, Baja Bota Caucana and Cofanía Jardines de Sucumbíos de Ipiales Nariño, a
regional network of over 50 peasant, indigenous, workers, women and youth associations.
Listen to the audio

Block T - Migration, State Racism and Anti-Racism Organising
This panel will discuss migration, state racism and anti-racist, migrant self organising.
It will discuss issues faced by migrant activists involved in left-wing politics including
the NGOization and electoralization of the migrant justice movement; confronting
nationalism and white privilege within campaigns and the particular types of exploitation
and oppression faced by different communities of working class migrants. We will also
discuss migrant self-organising, as in the Kinsale Road occupation, and strategies for
making single-issue campaigns more inclusive of anti-racism organising.
Watch the video

Cobblestone - Free, Safe, and Legal: Challenging Pro-Choice Values Workshop
What we talk about when we talk about abortion. While debates about abortion continue in
the public sphere, millions of people are forced to hear their own lived experiences
discussed and analysed by those who have little direct experience with abortion
themselves. In this workshop we seek to challenge people's understanding of abortion
beyond those extreme and publicised cases.

15.30- 17.00
Generator - Self-Organising and the City: stories from Athens and Dublin
This panel will look at the challenges and possibilities of popular self-organisation to
reclaim our lives, our homes and our cities. Katerina Nasioka will discuss the social
consequences of the crisis in Greece, critique the hope promised by SYRIZA and, finally,
look at the contradictions that social movements and self-organized experiments face in
the present moment. Jenny and Zoe will look at recent occupations in Dublin, including the
Grangegorman Squat in Smithfield where resistance to eviction is ongoing
Listen to the audio
Watch the video

Block T - Parents in activism
The Parents in Activism workshop will be a child-friendly event, at which children of all
ages are welcome, and will look at the challenges faced by parents in activist circles,
particularly those parents faced with a number of other oppressions already.

Cobblestone - Celebrate People’s History!
The Stoneybatter & Smithfield People’s History Project and the East Wall History Group are
not just local history societies. They both recognise the political importance of putting
working class history firmly on the record and challenging the capitalist and nationalist
interpretation of how Irish society evolved. Members of both groups will talk about their
work to date and will discuss with the audience the necessity for similar initiatives in
other parts of Dublin and the rest of the country. At a time when many Irish working class
people are defying the government on the water charges, it is vital to remember and learn
from the lessons of the past, including the stories of so-called ‘ordinary people’.